I’ve completed the seventh re-write. Added page numbers and a watermark. PDF’d it and printed it out. It sits beside me wrapped in heavy brown paper. Shortly I have to write a cover letter to my teacher explaining about it and my journey creating it. I’m have two very strong emotions flooding through me. Delight and despair.. I’m delighted because I’ve done it!! It feels awesome! I want to sing from the rooftops *grin* I get to read for three weeks now and not even think (HA!) about it. But I despair that it’s not good enough. That … [Read more...]
Exciting stuff
No not another request for a partial – but I’m sure that’ll come along soon! I’m re-writing the beginning of my story so it’s going to be totally different and after reviewing what I’ve written so far I’m very excited! This is much more likely to grip a reader and it still fits well with the story – much better than the original beginning. Being able to re-write is such a vital step in the writing business but for a newbie like me it can be rather heartbreaking the first time. I spent a year putting the story to paper (hard drive actually ;p) and when I read about re-writes on blog sites I … [Read more...]